Take Taobao with you to another world

Chapter 297 Definition of Civilization

"What is civilization?"

During the last meeting, Yun Shen said to Fan Tianlan: "By definition, civilization is the sum of people's knowledge of the world and the wealth they gather together to create. It is science, art and culture, and it is the material that embodies these creations."

He pondered for a moment, "No matter what the development method of civilization is, the process of its formation and development is the process of people recognizing the world and transforming the world. When transforming the world, people must also transform themselves at the same time."

People are united by the plight of their existence.

After the external pressure disappears?Apart from inertia, what other force can suppress the contradictions between races and ethnic groups?Apart from authority, what other goal can make people willing to submit their personal interests to the collective, or Yunshen's request?

Just as all complex machines are composed of parts, the executors of any production method are people.Parts can determine the material and unify the specifications, but people cannot.The uncertainty of human development as an individual makes history wonderful, but a purely biological human is meaningless to society.

A person is a "person" in the general sense only in society.

Compared with that country in another world, many people born and living in a mature industrial society sometimes have a hard time realizing how much momentum is needed to start the giant wheel of history, and certain things that are rejected or even hated develop in normal society What an irreplaceable role it plays.Although all industries and industries in society exist because of people's needs, most jobs do not exist to make people feel happy.People actively or passively find their own position in the most sophisticated and complex society in history, and consciously or unconsciously turn their own labor into a weak force for the spiral advancement of human civilization.Different organizational forms of government divided by country, geography and ideology, regardless of the ruler's ability and moral level, all countries will inevitably move towards the same goal - survival and development, and in the process of moving towards this goal The resulting competition and confrontation, driven by the industrial revolution, transformed human society and the natural environment in just a few hundred years beyond the sum of thousands or even millions of years in the past.

Standing on the mountainside of history and looking down, the road is so clear, but for those who are on the road, they have never seen the scenery above, and compared with other people in the same era, they have advanced too much.

The industrial foundation built by Yunshen's infusion of capital and technology cannot be said to be rock-solid in this world, but it is also difficult to encounter any situation that can really threaten them, even if the upper echelons of the orc empire collectively lose their minds However, another military operation of similar or larger scale would not be able to shake Yunshen's industrial progress, so he didn't need to think too much about those distant rulers.

Building the industrial standards of this world from the basics is what he has been doing, but behind the rigorous and precise rationality, can the different emotions and desires of different individuals and groups be unified within a certain regulation?

Looking back on his development along the way, Yun Shen is very aware of how unreasonable his speed is. Even if he can find an objective reason for his development at each stage, there is another extremely important factor that he is verifying. It is also impossible for him to modify the reality with his fingers, so that a group of "ancient people" who are accustomed to chasing deer and chasing wild animals, whose knowledge of nature and themselves are accumulated from generation to generation, will immediately become qualified junior workers.

Not immediately, but as soon as possible.

Forced labor has the quickest effect, when properly adjudicated with the whip and starvation, but the slave can never be the creator, and no command is stronger than the passion of the heart.All living people have expectations to change reality. Integrating these expectations into a framework of values ​​and resonating into a driving force for progress is the ideological construction that all organizations must carry out, and it is also the so-called "brainwashing".Yun Shen believes that the power of the collective is always stronger than the individual, and his actions make people around him think so, but where is the boundary of this collective?The ethnic groups who came over the mountains together are part of this collective, and the werewolves who form an alliance to fight against the enemy are also companions, but what about those strange foreign orcs?What about prisoners of war who were once hostile?Even in the longer term, what about the people who will come to this land for various reasons?

Who are our friends and who are our enemies?Who is qualified to share everything we have gained today?

Based on two rich mineral deposits, there are good seeds, tools and manpower. Except for luxury goods that most people have never seen, the settlement can produce almost all the necessities of life, and the quality is good. Even if there is no foreign trade, People who live here already think that life is ideal now.After the trade line is opened, a large amount of wealth in the ordinary sense will gather here, and the distance from other population settlements and the generation difference in weapons can also ensure long-term security. Stopping here is considered perfect for many people. Yun Shen's admiration and respect will not decrease in the slightest, and it is not so necessary to move forward.Some of Yun Shen's ideas can be said to be against "human nature", and replacing the will of the collective with the will of the individual may change from a leader to a "king" in one step.

However, when Yunshen decided to absorb the population of other tribes and provide them with education and other resources, there were no representatives of the settlements who expressed their opposition. After getting the news, Elder Sacher and some elders quickly approached Ska, making him He is annoying.The reason why they didn't express their opinion to Yun Shen was nothing else, but Yun Shen didn't know how to do it, and they didn't have the chance to meet the leader of the two clans who was already more important than Scar Nightmare.It is well known that Mr. Sorcerer has a high status and is very busy. Although no matter how busy his work is, he will visit places where young children and the elderly live every once in a while.

Scar took care of these troubles himself.

The werewolves who migrated from Sasheer's original place had a period of adaptation, which was as long as the cafeteria provided free food, and then they had to make choices about maintaining their lives in their new residences.Children under a certain age must go to school, where they are fed from morning to evening, and others may go to work and go to school, but the cost of food will become their debt, although the price is very low. A willing labor can pay off with a balance, but there is not only one place where they need to spend.

The power of light sent through extremely thin metal wires is not free, and the clear spring water flowing from the iron pipes that can be directly drunk has to be paid, and the grease and seasoning used when cooking food by oneself will not be sent to you. On the floors above the cafeterias that expressed their initial goodwill to the newcomers werewolves, shelves were placed like the crystal building in the original place, and many exciting commodities were also displayed, as well as those foreign orcs. The difference is that they can occupy them first, and then use their own labor to earn rewards, and the price is cheaper than facing foreign orcs.

Life is worth looking forward to, as long as they can "like humans".

It can be said that in order to allow the werewolves to study and work willingly like the human beings in the settlement, and to make due contributions to the great city that the sorcerer is constructing, human beings have expressed their sincerity through enough means.A large part of the werewolves felt this part of sincerity, and more importantly, they saw the behavior of those young and powerful young people headed by the patriarch, who represented the future of the tribe, gathered towards the magician, so they also learned to start A new life that is novel and difficult everywhere.The remaining part, except for werewolves who are too old or disabled, do not look forward to the future even if they are cared for by humans. Some people are dissatisfied with the life that must be arranged by humans.

Of course, they are not dissatisfied with the living conditions that are infinitely superior to those in the past, but they must devote their brains and physical strength to maintain this superiority. It doesn't seem to be much different from a mixed-haired and weak dog, which also disappointed the young werewolves who had imagined a lot of Perth and Keel's good life here before the migration, although none of them was as good as Cavaliers.Those werewolf knights who once symbolized Sachel and made the enemy fearful have been sent to the human barracks by Scar, where they received exactly the same training and education as humans—the same preferential treatment that made werewolves feel painful, and they were not allowed to other options.

"Good day?" Kiel repeated in disbelief when he heard that sentence, and the two Biss knights beside him also looked at each other.

Keir wanted to say something, but after a short thought, he said curtly, "That's stupid."

The whistle of the train resounded across the platform, and the indifferent werewolf looked at nearly a hundred fellows in front of him, "This is the last time, 'school' and 'factory', which side are you going to?"

The werewolf standing across from him exchanged glances furtively, but the voice of the guy yelling ahead drowned out their hesitation.

"We are not going!" In addition to these words, there is also the dissatisfaction and resentment that Kiel has heard many times along the way. Kiel listened silently, then turned to look at the steel train whose doors had been opened. A man in uniform The human beings stood in front of the car door and turned their heads to look at this side.

"I understand." Kiel said, his eyes paused for a while on the young werewolf at the front, "I will tell the patriarch that you can go back. Let's go."

The werewolf looked at him angrily, and Kiel's eyes were calm. Those words just now did not shake him for a moment. In the contest of eyes, it was Kiel who looked away first.

"Let's go," he said to the clansmen, and he pointed to the train, "Go back to where we Sasheer came from, if that's what you want."

"I'll wait for the day you come back," he said to the werewolves who had been mobilized and rightly failed, before the doors closed.

"Never!"

Here's their response.

Keir said nothing, and a Bis knight beside him said, "Fools. They'll get back on their own."

"Where else would they go and do?" said another werewolf. "Go back to herding cattle and sheep?"

"They're really stupid," Keel said, and then he whispered, "I want to kill a man."

"Who?" asked his companion.

Keir said a name.

That person is still in the hospital in the inhabited area. After all, he was seriously injured at the time, and he was very lucky to be able to get out of bed and walk. Although he may not be able to regain his previous strength after the injury, he Will still be a normal werewolf.Usually, some werewolves would come to visit him. This kind of behavior full of human touch was very rare for the orcs whose interpersonal relationship was very rough, but he had no visitors today.

The sound of crutches echoing in the corridor, the hospital is always quiet, because there are almost no idlers in the settlement, the former commander walked slowly along the straight line of bricks on the ground, the early summer sun fell on him, he stopped, He pressed his forehead uncomfortably.

The seams still seemed to ache.

He looked up to see a tall werewolf walking towards him, an unexpected visitor.Lie Feng's former commander was a little surprised. Just as he was about to call out the opponent's name, a steel-like hand came towards him and pinched his neck.

A click.